RE: D-Type or FreeType?

[Boris Letocha]

> Sort of - libart has the pen centred around the vpath, I 
> think outlined
> fonts really should be inset.  comments?
IMHO it should be centered around center of path...

But there is also path operations ...

so to acomplish your problem use:
get path from FT.
now switch to libart :-)
stroke the path
calcutate intersection of these two paths and result is what you want ...

Boris